Where the Mind Wanders

In this book, you will find stories like the crazy Queen of Daisies, of creatures Itinidorama who wants to eat fries out of a tin can, on how to enter someone's dreams, of frog-eating wizards (and then wizard-eating frogs), Little Rue who fought Valgurstur, of the hungry Stombalon and the melancholic Doctor Wuzznuff.  In rhyming poetry with 1930s inspired illustrations, there is a sense of zany and crazy wonder among the odd characters of this book.  There are stories for both children and adults, don't be too sure that this is a purely light-hearted romp among silly folks! 

After reading the books of Shel Silverstein and epic poems such as Paradise Lost, The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Conference of the Birds and The Iliad, I had become enamored with the idea of writing poetry myself.  I did end up writing an epic poem, or, at least one-twelfth of an epic poem titled The Tohram-Ansolua.  In the past year, however, I wrote about fifty poems and chose a chunk of them to illustrate into a children's picture book.  While I think it was a lot to handle, writing another epic and writing/illustrating this picture book, I am rather content of how this book ended up and I hope you will be too.

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